A Quad-CPU PowerPC BEHEMOTH

so here we are the final video of 2023 and I've got something kind of special that I've been saving sweet spicy spinler it is the obnoxiously heavy obscenely powerful and nearly unobtainable dayar Genesis MP the 1995 Macintosh clone with quad power PC processors and today we're going to take a look at this thing power it up and maybe even install a weird operating system on it like BOS so stay [Music] tuned and if you enjoy seeing the bleeding edge technology from yesty year tortured For Your Entertainment I hope you consider subscribing to the channel in 1995 you could buy a brand new Saturn SL1 the greatest car ever made for $112,000 and if you're you were smart you could double its value by putting one of these in it a dayar Genesis mp600 I don't think that's how money Works released in October 1995 for $122,000 this absolute Behemoth of a computer packs four powerpc 604 CPUs running at 133 MHz each it was the most powerful contender in the Macintosh clones Market yeah there was a brief time in the '90s where Apple at other compan make Mac compatible computers and even when you get past the fact that this thing has four processors its specs are ridiculous for the time it has 12 dim slots that can take up to 1.5 gigs of RAM it could fit seven scuzzy hard drives in there and it had six PCI slots now I got this machine from my friend and fellow YouTuber kin from this does not compute and he did a bunch of great videos on it like the history and over view watching it die suddenly and painfully and then resurrecting it so I'll link those videos down in the description but today we're going to focus on using this monster dual booting Mac OS and BOS and I just so happen to have this completely legitimate BOS for power PC install CD version 5.0.3 the final version right after this quick word about today's sponsor flexis spot do you know what I really enjoy sitting down and as a sitting down Enthusiast I can hardly recommend the flexispot C7 ergonomic office chair I 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2 which uh the eagley among you might notice is in several pieces but that's nothing we can't solve with a bit of soldering [Music] and I have this nice 3D printed bracket to give me some mounting points and of course completely mismatched screws as is tradition and then just these two brackets on the side we'll hold it in place in the machine and then one of the other cool things about blue scuzzy is you don't actually need to power it it gets all the power it needs from the scuzzy bus all right first power on of this behemoth well still Chimes and first thing we'll do is try to restore this to its factory settings luckily Macintosh Garden does have the original dayar Genesis MP Restore disc because this machine does needs some special software from dayar to make use of the multiple processors in Mac OS now I've made up an SD card with two blank 2 GB disc images on here one for Mac and then the other one will be for BOS so we'll initialize those real quick and there we go BOS we have install me first and install me second so the first one is the system and the second one looks like the dayar specific software so I'll let these run and I'll jump cut to this being complete or this failing all right well for some reason with the blue scuzzy V2 the install kept freezing pretty early on but I put a blue scuzi 1.1 in here and everything installed just fine so we have a fresh install of Mac OS 7.5.3 and before we try and install BOS let's take a quick poke around here because yeah there's some interesting dayar stuff that's installed ha yeah this is the end power control panel and we can see our four power PC 64 CPUs installed oh yeah check it out here's some utilization running at 132 megahertz because of course Mac OS by default does not support multiple processors dayar performance demo oh look at this 3D projection I have no idea what this is going to do whoa look at that thing yeah use four processors enabled all right it's enough horsing around with this stuff let's do the thing I'm most excited to do and install BOS the final power PC version on the most powerful power PC Mac that can run it now to install BOS is pretty simple though a little weird this CD is set up for multiple architectures so we just go into Macintosh here and BOS Mac Tools then we install the OS Chooser to extensions and then just copy BOS launcher to the desktop so now when the computer boots up it will let us choose between BOS and Mac OS a very nice dual boot experience and we can also boot into BOS from the Mac OS desktop which is pretty interesting because it actually replaces the OS in memory and is now just running BOS no more Mac OS ah there's nothing I love more than agreeing to decades old terms and conditions all right we'll install this to the uh 2 gab part well 2 GB disc image actually so it's two separate discs we will install the development tools for future shenanigan purposes and uh yeah begin uh-oh we had our first error of the install it says that some of the documentation HTML files appear to be corrupted I'm going to click ignore all and we're just going to hope for the best all right first boot after BOS install got our G genis MP extension loading and ah there we go the 4 second countdown to choose B oh yes look at this beautiful B oh there we are BOS version 501 running on four power PC 604s at 130 mahz let's see that in action with pulse oh yeah look at that our four CPUs running in perfect concert yeah you know the first thing we have to check out GL [Music] teapot look at that stunning 6.6 FPS let's add some more two teapots merging into one command n three teapots four teapots five teapots look at those CPUs go oh that is like a teapot nightmare all right I have no idea how many teapots I just added but the frame rate has taken a dip 1.4 ah this is ridiculous and beautiful okay so I've been poking around for a bit and BOS is running Rock Solid on here I was able to connect to the internet with no fuss and we're browsing using net positive which is the BOS web browser so something I really really want to try is to get classic Cube running on here which is the open- source Minecraft classic clone that's written in C and can compile to run on just about anything so we'll use frog fine to get to the GitHub and uh this has has compiling instructions for lots of operating systems this thing will even run on an SGI Iris machine that's awesome but yeah here is what it says we need to compile with CC on BOS but it also says in here that it's never been tried on real Hardware before so I guess we'll be the first so over here in this terminal I have the source code already extracted and uh I suppose it wants us to just go into the source directory paste in that command uh all right ah unknown option fno math error no um does BOS not have that [Music] command H nope so now it failed because local data greater than 32k in audio. C I have no idea how to compile stuff on BOS and just running it didn't work so I don't know I'll have to do more research into that but I'd love to get it working on here all right one more thing to try there's a BOS 51 to 503 updater so we can get up to the software I thought we were running all right let's see we are now running 503 and I'm going to give this one more try even though I did a little more research and uh don't think it's going to [Music] work nope we get this error local data above 32k and that seems to be a limitation with the CC compiler which I found out on the flood Gap website which has lots of good stuff and I'll link that down below okay well last minute update I'm actually filming this update at 8:00 p.m. on New Year's Eve so still technically the last video filmed in 2023 I must have just borked this blue scuzzy that I assembled earlier because I tried a different one blue scuzzy V2 and it works just fine so now I'd like to try something that uh well I find hilarious even though it's kind of a totally normal thing you would have done back in the day let's run Mac OS inside of BOS yeah we're going to run sheep shaver and I made a dis image of my color classic Mystics hard drive running Macos 8. something oh yeah booting Mac OS inside of BOS look at those four CPUs go and this is especially interesting because Mac OS is actually not being emulated here it's running natively on the power PC processors for which we have plenty and yeah this should pretty much run as well as it would on just a power PC Mac running natively and we can pass through the cdrom drive which means I can put in the dayar restore CD and uh install the dayar software and I wonder if this inside of BOS can still see all four CPUs oh no look at that the software only sees a single CPU but that's okay because yeah we'll let this use one CPU to the best of its ability because we've got plenty of games on here and this is the only way you can play Wolfenstein 3D on power PC BOS [Music] nice all right I dub this the Behemoth I am so excited that we got BOS running on this thing dual booting with the original Mac OS 753 and uh yeah unfortunately be 5 is a bit less compatible with BOS power PC software than BOS R4 and 4.5 which is what I usually install for example I tried to get Doom going on here off camera and it did not work but I have a lot of wacky plans for this machine in the future for example I want to Max this out with the ridiculous 1.5 gigs of RAM and try triple booting Linux on here but that'll do it for today's video and the last video video at least filmed in 2023 if you enjoyed this video I'd appreciate a thumbs up if you'd like to see more stuff like this please subscribe down below and thank you very much for watching and a special thanks to Alex Hoffman Andrew Nicholson April white Chris bigs Chris Calderon Chris Nelson control Al Reese Daniel hubard froto Jedi George rosanski Greg Hut Harris Brody James Fryman James Lori Jason peepas Jason easel Lyall truid Matthew cowall Paul Spencer Ryan Scott Cedar bomb Scott Thompson Tom Woodfin and Unknown Soldier 41 who are my highest tiered patrons and all of my patreon supporters for helping to make these videos possible

Channel: Action Retro

Views: 57,700

Keywords: retro, vintage computers, macintosh, apple, retrocomputing, retro computers

Id: Q1gviCx_KhE

Length: 16min 42sec (1002 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 06 2024